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Jim Hightower

American Activist

Born: Jan 11, 1943

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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. Jim Hightower

Courage Cowardice Dead Fish Go Opposite Conformity Even Flow

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages. Jim Hightower

Jobs Had Wages Issue Just Even Slaves

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out? Jim Hightower

You Speak Matter Matters Out Would Now

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government. Jim Hightower

Government Lobby Corporations Anymore

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses. Jim Hightower

Political Challenge Power Own Control Live Approach Harmony Corporate Liberalism Destinies Distinguishes Out Classic Seeks Economic Excess Concentrated Empower Always Been Trying American Movement Order Which Regulate Orthodoxy

There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos. Jim Hightower

Nothing Stripe Road Dead Yellow Middle

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos. Jim Hightower

Road Dead Lines Yellow Middle

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom. Jim Hightower

Politics Top About Bottom Left Versus Right

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us. Jim Hightower

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Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building. Jim Hightower

Dog Building Lift Smallest Tallest Leg Even

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. Jim Hightower

Work Crazy Too Else No Idea Something Something Else Idea

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives. Jim Hightower

Time Democracy You Culture Election Building Ought Our Our Lives Ongoing Something Part Know Also Just Happens Process Event Lives

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption. Jim Hightower

Health Tired Corruption Matter Delay Sick Sick And Tired His Public Public Health

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism. Jim Hightower

Politics You Took Entered Only Could Take Journalism Turn Downward

The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out. Jim Hightower

Good News Together People Political Good News Other Though Out Administration Citizens Find About Entirely Having More Putting Hear Than Discussions Getting Differ Want Interested Regular Viewpoints Ever Travels

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